ANOTHER SUSPECTED JOB.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1721, 26 August 1879, Page 2

ANOTHER SUSPECTED JOB.

[By TELEGRAPH.] [from ope own correspondent.] WELLINGTON, August 25. Slowly but surely the mal-practices of the ■ present Government (or rather of Sir George Grey’s ; for after all he is the Government, Bad he only) are coming to light. At the present moment there is lying on Wellington wharf a considerable portion of 174 tons of railway material, which has been brought out by the Loch Oree. It is principally the different pieces of railway waggons, every one of which is branded “ G & L, W.” which means Guthrie and Larnaoh, Wellington. It is all consigned to the Government. Besides this, there is another lot of the same kind of material, and bearing the same brand, on its way to Wellington. Both lots represent thousands of pounds in value. Those who have inquired into the circumstance ask why could not the Government have purchased the stuff itself, if it required it, and thussaved commission and other profit that must go to the company of Guthrie and Lamach. One reply given is that a Parliamentary two thousand was nothing as compared with the great and glorious boon Mr Larnach conferred upon the colony by making Sir Q. Grey Premier, and that it is only right his services should be recompensed in some other way. It is also said, but the statement is not yet verified, that consignments of railway material similar to that referred to are being sent to the principal ports of New Zealand, all branded Guthrie and Larnach, and all purhased by the Government from that com* any.